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What is unit testing in CodeIgniter?
Unit testing is an approach to software development in which tests are written for each function in your application. CodeIgniter’s Unit Test class is quite simple, consisting of an evaluation function and two result functions.
What is PHP unit testing?
PHPUnit is a unit testing framework for the PHP programming language. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks that originated with SUnit and became popular with JUnit. PHPUnit was created by Sebastian Bergmann and its development is hosted on GitHub.
How do you check database is connected or not in codeigniter?
try { // do database connection } catch (Exception $e) { // DO whatever you want with the $e data, it has a default __toString() so just echo $e if you want errors or default it to connect another db, etc. echo $e->getMessage(); // Connect to secondary DB. }
How is unit testing done?
A typical unit test contains 3 phases: First, it initializes a small piece of an application it wants to test (also known as the system under test, or SUT), then it applies some stimulus to the system under test (usually by calling a method on it), and finally, it observes the resulting behavior.
How does PHP unit work?
PHPUnit will recognize all functions prefixed with test as a test function and run it automatically. This function is actually very straightforward, we first call Calculator. add function to calculate the value of 1 plus 2. Then we check if it returns correct value by using PHPUnit function assertEquals.
How manually connect to database in CodeIgniter?
Manually Connecting to a Database
- $this->load->database(‘group_name’);
- $dsn = ‘dbdriver://username:password@hostname/database’; $this->load->database($dsn);
- $dsn = ‘dbdriver://username:password@hostname/database? char_set=utf8&dbcollat=utf8_general_ci&cache_on=true&cachedir=/path/to/cache’; $this->load->database($dsn);